I was wondering why the name of the thread had an ellipsis after the number but now I see why...

I'd be very surprised if Riruka didn't defect to the good side seeing how she was the only one who didn't want his powers. And if she survives after this filler arc (Filler arc in a manga? Really Kubo?) then it would be a good ol' fashioned love rectangle for the shippers to go crazy over like always!

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Quote from Klapzi

The cool part is that I never get tired of being deceived

Quote from tactics

Just because someone's head was chopped off doesn't mean they're dead. That's just silly.

Finally those two morons said: "Um, should we be fighting?" It took this long to question everything?! If they'd been paying any attention to what people were saying, they would have figured it out a long time ago. There's a limit to being spacey or not listening.

This chapter was not as good as the previous 3 but it was necessary... everybody was wondering where the other fullbring, Orohime and chad were .. now we know... and the stage is set for the final battle too... hope it will not disappoint me

An ok chapter, I guess. Finally got to see Inoue and Chad. But, I thought that this house that is in the background was where Ichigo's friends were before, along with Chad, Inoue and Ichigo. So, where are they coming from? The only part that I really liked was actually finding out how Tsukishima put himself into their lives. I've been waiting for that since he explained his powers.

My question is...where did Ginjo come from? When Ichigo showed up and fought in the Soul Society, everyone was surprised that a human could gain these powers and that he had so much power...so now, there has been another guy the whole time, and he is way above captain level just like Ichigo (or more like as powerful as Aizen, the way that Ginjo is talking about himself)? I don't think that Tite has ever had someone in charge of continuity...

So Riruka wasn't lying...glad to see that she really, really likes Ichigo...too bad that she got an unwanted surge of power, hopefully she doesn'y go the way of that one bount in the anime who didn't want the power either, got it force-fed to him and then he went crazy...

Anyone else feel that Ginjo and Tsukishima may be the new Aizen and Gin? When we first meet them we thought Ginjo was good and Tsukishima was evil. Then we find out they are working together. But in this chapter Ginjo clearly wasn't happy with how Tsukishima was controlling Chad and Orihime. Kind of like how Aizen was annoyed at Gin for not helping him when he was fighting all the good guys in the fake town arc.

Also I'm starting to like Ginjo as a villain now. He's as deceptive as Aizen but doesn't claim to be god-like or anything. His powerups are justifiable, he just stole Ichigo's powers. And he actually looks pretty decent with his new get up, unlike Aizen's butterfly thing.

Out of everything else, i don't like how this fight is turn based:*ichigo's turn: he attacks, fail and chat.*ginjo's turn: reinforcement arrives, he power them up. ichigo's team can't do anything meaningfull, since it's ginjo turn.By the way, i like how it is batlantly obvious that ginjo's cronnies arrived just so that the captains will have someone to fight, instead of just watching and commenting the main fight (cue to them showing off their own power ups!), as it was the norm in DBZ, heh!